[gentoo-user] gimp-2.6.4 fails with libxcb 1.4

2009-10-07 Thread Denis
Hello everyone, I just upgraded to libxcb 1.4, and the only side effect so far is that I cannot get gimp to compile. The build log clearly points to the broken libxcb dependency, although I followed the Upgrade Guide: -- /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp-2.6.4 fails with libxcb 1.4

2009-10-07 Thread Dirk Uys
I am experiencing the same problem as you described. Will probably only be able to further look at it tonight or tomorrow night. Regards Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 06:34:06 alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Thanks all for the help. Finally the problem was solved by re-compiling all X11 drivers used, and most notably xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse. I still think that any package update that breaks a working config

[gentoo-user] Re: mplayer configure weirdness

2009-10-07 Thread Igor Nemilentsev
On 06-10-2009, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: I was busy doing a system upgrade which failed halfway (due to the libxcb upgrade thing). This left my mplayer broken since ffmpeg was upgraded i guess. No problem, just emerge mplayer again. Tried it, and the emerge got stuck at Checking for

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp-2.6.4 fails with libxcb 1.4

2009-10-07 Thread Steffen Loos
Denis schrieb: Hello everyone, I just upgraded to libxcb 1.4, and the only side effect so far is that I cannot get gimp to compile. Because you're using libxcb from unstable you could try to use gimp-2.6.7 also from unstable -- with that combination i haven't experienced any problems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Marco
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-10-06, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: [...] there is a FAT warning. Maybe people should start reading the warnings and infos instead of panicing I

[gentoo-user] Xorg + nvidia driver problems

2009-10-07 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi all, When I use nvidia driver on my Xorg I get this error many times: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x37) [0x8126e5f] [mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping. [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop. [mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009, Marco wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-10-06, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: [...] there is a FAT warning. Maybe people should start

[gentoo-user] two versions of java

2009-10-07 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, can i have both VM on gentoo ? For example *)Sun JDK 1.5.0.12 and *)Sun JDK 1.5.0.20 ? Thanks, Kaushal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 11:13:31 Marco wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-10-06, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: [...] there is a FAT warning. Maybe people

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and saving a copy of outgoing mail

2009-10-07 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: I have mail server running netqmail and vpopmail set up following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml. I can't find a way to make the server taking care of storing all sent messages. Googoling around I

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread dhk
Marco wrote: Hi all, after emerge --sync emerge --update world --deep my keyboard (in X) does not work anymore. Since I am switching to slim after boot, I cannot even change to a console with Ctrl-Alt-F1. I guess something went wrong with the Xorg-update. I am now using a live-CD to be

Re: [gentoo-user] two versions of java

2009-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 11:37:38 Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, can i have both VM on gentoo ? For example *)Sun JDK 1.5.0.12 and *)Sun JDK 1.5.0.20 ? Yes, but with a twist Those versions will be in the same SLOT so portage will not install both. You can install just one or both manually

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: Marco wrote: Hi all, after emerge --sync emerge --update world --deep my keyboard (in X) does not work anymore. Since I am switching to slim after boot, I cannot even change to a console with Ctrl-Alt-F1. I guess something went wrong with the Xorg-update. Alt-SysRq-R,

[gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Can anyone suggest where to look? Could be lots of things. /usr/portage/sys-process contains some tools like htop and iotop. bonnie and bonnie++ can benchmark the HDrive. could be in the installation. Maybe sync and update a few times to ensure all

[gentoo-user] Re: HAL crashes after connecting removable media

2009-10-07 Thread James
Sebastian Beßler webmaster at darkmetatron.de writes: I don't now since when exactly as I don't use removable media so often, but now my HAL-daemon crashes after connecting a removable media. do you have the latest HAL version? Mine is 0.5.12_rc1-r8 with KDE4 and recently it was acting

[gentoo-user] Re: gimp-2.6.4 fails with libxcb 1.4

2009-10-07 Thread walt
On 10/06/2009 11:53 PM, Denis wrote: Hello everyone, I just upgraded to libxcb 1.4, and the only side effect so far is that I cannot get gimp to compile. The build log clearly points to the broken libxcb dependency, although I followed the Upgrade Guide: /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0: undefined

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg + nvidia driver problems

2009-10-07 Thread walt
On 10/07/2009 02:29 AM, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi all, When I use nvidia driver on my Xorg I get this error many times: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x37) [0x8126e5f] [mi] mieqEnequeue: out-of-order valuator event; dropping. I'm on : [I] x11-base/xorg-server Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gimp-2.6.4 fails with libxcb 1.4

2009-10-07 Thread Denis
You forgot the very last step of the xcb upgrade: # rm -i /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so* Read the upgrade guide again :o) Oops, I figured I didn't know what I was doing, but it always makes sense in the end :-P Thanks! That got things all fixed up, including a bunch of other packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xorg + nvidia driver problems

2009-10-07 Thread Arnau Bria
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:53:33 -0700 walt walt wrote: That's pretty strange. Have you tried fsck'ing your hard disk? Reinstalling the nvidia driver? Yep, bith things, and upgraded kernell too. Also xorg-server was just updated to 1.6 this week, so you are out of date now. That doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: Large update blocked

2009-10-07 Thread Doug Hunley
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 23:15, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Is there a sane way through this update? Just remove eselect-news. From looking at eselect's ebuild I deduce that its functionality is taken over by eselect itself. I had the same thing a while back. The above is correct.

[gentoo-user] glib-2.20.5 failed

2009-10-07 Thread Vincent De Groote
Hello, I follow the Installation guide of gentoo. I'm in step 9. Installing Necessary System Tools / 9.a. System Logger When I emerge syslog-ng, it installs glib-2.20.5 and fails with the following error: ebuild.sh, line 49: called src_test environment, line 2867: called die die message =

Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro 1320 laptop. It has a 2.2Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, and a 7200RPM hard drive. Navigating within firefox is pretty slow. It's the response time of the application, not the

[gentoo-user] pciutils: update-pciids

2009-10-07 Thread James
Hello, It seems the gentoo version of pciutils does not include the script to update the pci device ids: http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/ So I looked at the latest available: http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/v2.2/pci.ids Date:2009-09-18 03:15:01 The latest version on gentoo available via

[gentoo-user] Re: pciutils: update-pciids

2009-10-07 Thread Doug Hunley
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:10, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, It seems the gentoo version of pciutils does not include the script to update the pci device ids: I have /usr/sbin/update-pciids as part of the package here... -- Douglas J Hunley, RHCT doug.hun...@gmail.com :

[gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I also know the SysReq key trick now. It can take you back to a console. I'll bite ... what is it?

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and saving a copy of outgoing mail

2009-10-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Oct 2009, at 10:42, Andrea Momesso wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: I have mail server running netqmail and vpopmail set up following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml. I can't find a way to make the server taking care of

Re: [gentoo-user] glib-2.20.5 failed

2009-10-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Oct 2009, at 16:29, Vincent De Groote wrote: ... I follow the Installation guide of gentoo. I'm in step 9. Installing Necessary System Tools / 9.a. System Logger When I emerge syslog-ng, it installs glib-2.20.5 and fails with the following error: ebuild.sh, line 49: called src_test

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Zitat von William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:30:29PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Then explain why nox alone always works fine when I use it WITHOUT livecd. If you are using an older version of xinit, it might work, but it also causes you to have to reboot before

Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread Grant
I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro 1320 laptop.  It has a 2.2Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, and a 7200RPM hard drive. Navigating within firefox is pretty slow.  It's the response time of the application, not the network.  It's much slower than my previous laptop which has much

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I also know the SysReq key trick now. It can take you back to a console. I'll bite ... what is it? Some magic commands involving the SysRq key allow actions even if the system hangs and does not respond. Alt-SysRq-R for example

Re: [gentoo-user] Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread bn
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Wednesday 07 October 2009 06:34:06 alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Thanks all for the help. Finally the problem was solved by re-compiling all X11 drivers used, and most notably xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse. I still think that any package update that

[gentoo-user] Re: pciutils: update-pciids

2009-10-07 Thread James
Doug Hunley doug at hunley.homeip.net writes: I have /usr/sbin/update-pciids as part of the package here... My bad. It was not in the old version (stable) but it is in the latest version. very cool thx James

[gentoo-user] Re: pciutils: update-pciids

2009-10-07 Thread Doug Hunley
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:40, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: I have /usr/sbin/update-pciids as part of the package here... My bad. It was not in the old version (stable) but it is in the latest version. According to the ebuild, it will even create a cronjob in /etc/cron.monthly

Re: [gentoo-user] New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro 1320 laptop. It has a 2.2Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, and a 7200RPM hard drive. Navigating within firefox is pretty slow. It's the response time of the application, not the network. It's much slower than my previous laptop which

Re: [gentoo-user] Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 19:07:36 bn wrote: Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Wednesday 07 October 2009 06:34:06 alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote: Thanks all for the help. Finally the problem was solved by re-compiling all X11 drivers used, and most notably xf86-input-keyboard

[gentoo-user] Broken 3D

2009-10-07 Thread James
Hello, bzflag will not run I'm using ati-drivers (9.9-r2) on an AMD64 system. xdriinfo says? Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0 Screen 0: not direct rendering capable. Wnen I recompile ati-drivers I get this: snip Found sources for kernel version:

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and saving a copy of outgoing mail

2009-10-07 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 18:21:21 Stroller wrote: On 7 Oct 2009, at 10:42, Andrea Momesso wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: I have mail server running netqmail and vpopmail set up following

Re: [gentoo-user] glib-2.20.5 failed

2009-10-07 Thread Vincent De Groote
I'm using the last I found: install-x86-minimal-20090915.iso Thanks for your reply vdg 2009/10/7 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk: On 7 Oct 2009, at 16:29, Vincent De Groote wrote: ... I follow the Installation guide of gentoo.  I'm in step 9. Installing Necessary System Tools /

[gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread James
kashani kashani-list at badapple.net writes: I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one of the laptops I've been considering. You just have to admire and honest (Dell) company Poking around the 1720, I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Rohit writes: I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make drives of one machine available to the other. It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back. I didn't find it there, but now that I looked for such a thing I think I found a similar one. Thanks! Linux is not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote: Rohit writes: I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make drives of one machine available to the other. It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back. I didn't find it there, but now that I looked for such a thing I

[gentoo-user] Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread Denis
I did some searching and found that this problem is fairly widespread, but I wasn't able to find a solution to it. Basically, ever since I upgraded to libxcb-1.4 yesterday, whenever I launch an application in Xorg, be that firefox, acroread, gimp, etc, I get: Xlib: extension Generic Event

Re: [gentoo-user] glib-2.20.5 failed

2009-10-07 Thread Albert Hopkins
I was not able to reproduce this but you may be able to get around it by removing test from your FEATURES list. -a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Dale
Alex Schuster wrote: Harry Putnam writes: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: I also know the SysReq key trick now. It can take you back to a console. I'll bite ... what is it? Some magic commands involving the SysRq key allow actions even if the system hangs and

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and saving a copy of outgoing mail

2009-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:42:15AM +0200, Penguin Lover Andrea Momesso squawked: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: I have mail server running netqmail and vpopmail set up following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml. I can't find a

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good documentation out there? Anyone use NGINX?

2009-10-07 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:04:03PM -0500, Penguin Lover David Juhl squawked: I am trying to find away to access files securely from my home computer. The network I am on is really strict on email attachments and no usb drives are allowed, so I possibly thought of a website that uses ssl and a

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and saving a copy of outgoing mail

2009-10-07 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: I have mail server running netqmail and vpopmail set up following http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml. I can't find a way to make the server taking care of storing all sent messages. Googoling around I

[gentoo-user] Re: Broken 3D

2009-10-07 Thread walt
On 10/07/2009 09:49 AM, James wrote: Hello, bash: glxgears: command not found I can't help with the driver, but glxgears is in the mesa-progs package.

[gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread walt
On 10/07/2009 11:14 AM, Denis wrote: I did some searching and found that this problem is fairly widespread, but I wasn't able to find a solution to it. Basically, ever since I upgraded to libxcb-1.4 yesterday, whenever I launch an application in Xorg, be that firefox, acroread, gimp, etc, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken 3D

2009-10-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:49 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, bzflag will not run snip Any suggestions or clarification are most welcome. snip Can you send your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file? -James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:39:45 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Others allow to kill processes, sync the filesystem, and such. The combination Alt-SysRq-R-E-I-S-U-B reboots a hanging PC without file system corruption. Usually! Sometimes a system can be locked up to badly that there's not enough

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:39:45 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Others allow to kill processes, sync the filesystem, and such. The combination Alt-SysRq-R-E-I-S-U-B reboots a hanging PC without file system corruption. Usually!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread Denis
The xorg-server upgrade and the libxcb upgrade go together as pair. You need to upgrade the server now -- carefully following the upgrade guide, please. Thanks - I will do that. But the upgrade guide doesn't have anything in it, except how to enable Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc to kill the server...

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Zitat von Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de: Zitat von William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:30:29PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Then explain why nox alone always works fine when I use it WITHOUT livecd. If you are using an older version of xinit, it might

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:39:45 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Others allow to kill processes, sync the filesystem, and such. The combination Alt-SysRq-R-E-I-S-U-B reboots a hanging PC without file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread Denis
As a related question, does the kernel need to be upgraded from 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 (i686) for the xorg-server-1.6 upgrade? I think the bulletin mentioned upgrade necessary on an alpha, so I just wanted to check if I will have all functionality without doing kernel upgrade... Thank you - sorry for

[gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread walt
On 10/07/2009 01:34 PM, Denis wrote: As a related question, does the kernel need to be upgraded from 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 (i686) for the xorg-server-1.6 upgrade? I think the bulletin mentioned upgrade necessary on an alpha, so I just wanted to check if I will have all functionality without doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fed up with Xorg + hal mess [SOLVED]

2009-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:09:00 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I've seen you guys talk about this and I've never had to use it. I'm curious about the actual key strokes. Is it Alt-SysRq and then REISUB or Alt-SysRq followed by Atl-R, Atl-E, etc.. ? Hold down Alt-SysRq while pressing REISUB in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-07 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote: Rohit writes: I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make drives of one machine available to the other. It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back. I didn't find it there, but now that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-10-07 Thread Denis
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: The tricky part is the libxcb upgrade guide.  Did you do all the stuff it says when upgrading libxcb? Indeed, with your help, my upgrade for libxcb is complete and appears successful. :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HAL crashes after connecting removable media

2009-10-07 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 07.10.2009 15:40, schrieb James: do you have the latest HAL version? I had the latest HAL version sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 I run ~amd64 Mine is 0.5.12_rc1-r8 with KDE4 and recently it was acting peculilar until the upgrade to 0.5.12_rc1-r8. I downgraded to 0.5.12_rc1-r8 and now

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken 3D

2009-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 07 Oktober 2009, James wrote: Any suggestions or clarification are most welcome. yes, remove that drm stuff from your kernel as you are told in the error message. Compileinstall kernel, install ati-drivers, reboot. Geez - the error tells you exactly the problem!

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:14:56PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Interestingly, I just stumbled accross this again, while updating config files. After reading the code, I'd say the above is not correct (at least not on ~x86 with bl2/openrc). Here it works like this: There's

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Stroller writes: On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote: Rohit writes: I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make drives of one machine available to the other. It was available from

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Oct 2009, at 22:08, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote: Rohit writes: I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make drives of one machine available to the other. It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back. I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PC as USB client

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 7 Oct 2009, at 22:08, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote: Rohit writes: I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make drives of one

[gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

2009-10-07 Thread Mick
What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in fdisk: === Disk /dev/sda: 1010 MB, 1010826752 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x91f72d24 Device

Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

2009-10-07 Thread dhk
Mick wrote: What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in fdisk: === Disk /dev/sda: 1010 MB, 1010826752 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 122 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier:

Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick

2009-10-07 Thread Daniel Quinn
On October 7, 2009 10:30:23 pm Mick wrote: What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? The thing about USB sticks is that if you want to use them to transfer files cross-platform (Windows Mac as well as Linux) you have to use a common filesystem. Typically, I use FAT32 for this since I

Re: [gentoo-user] Any good documentation out there? Anyone use NGINX?

2009-10-07 Thread David Juhl
I suppose I could run it on a cdr and set up a ssh tunnel... Dave On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 05:59 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:04:03PM -0500, Penguin Lover David Juhl squawked: I am trying to find away to access files securely from my home computer. The network I am on

[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers

2009-10-07 Thread Hung Dang
Hi all, I updated my system yesterday today and find out that the latest nvidia-drivers requires old glbc version 2.5. I have goggled for a while and have not found out the solution. Below is the output of emerge command emerge -pv nvidia-drivers These are the packages that would be merged, in

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers

2009-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Hung Dang wrote: Hi all, I updated my system yesterday today and find out that the latest nvidia-drivers requires old glbc version 2.5. I have goggled for a while and have not found out the solution. Below is the output of emerge command emerge -pv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop is slow.

2009-10-07 Thread daid kahl
I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one of the laptops I've been considering. You just have to admire and honest (Dell) company I had a Dell laptop a few years back. It was the reason for maybe 2

Re: [gentoo-user] glib-2.20.5 failed

2009-10-07 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I follow the Installation guide of gentoo. I'm in step Does anybody know what should I do ? The first thing I *always* do when installing a fresh Gentoo system and hitting a bug: 1) Google and look at the first page 2) Put the failed package version in /etc/portage/package.mask

[gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-07 Thread Dale
Hi, I'm attempting to upgrade KDE 4. As you can see in the subject line, I have a problem. Here is the boo boo message: [ 25%] Building CXX object kresources/CMakeFiles/kresources.dir/configwidget.o [ 26%] Building CXX object kresources/CMakeFiles/kresources.dir/configdialog.o [ 26%]

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-07 Thread James Ausmus
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to upgrade KDE 4. As you can see in the subject line, I have a problem. Here is the boo boo message: [ 25%] Building CXX object kresources/CMakeFiles/kresources.dir/configwidget.o [ 26%] Building CXX

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-07 Thread Dale
James Ausmus wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to upgrade KDE 4. As you can see in the subject line, I have a problem. Here is the boo boo message: [ 25%] Building CXX object

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-07 Thread Dale
James Ausmus wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to upgrade KDE 4. As you can see in the subject line, I have a problem. Here is the boo boo message: [ 25%] Building CXX object

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken 3D

2009-10-07 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:49:41 + (UTC), James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, bzflag will not run I'm using ati-drivers (9.9-r2) on an AMD64 system. xdriinfo says? Xlib: extension XFree86-DRI missing on display :0.0 Screen 0: not direct rendering capable. Wnen I

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.2 failed:

2009-10-07 Thread Nagatoro
On Thursday 08 October 2009 05.33.18 Dale wrote: James Ausmus wrote: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [...] Hmm - looks like maybe the error is further back in the scroll buffer - can you send the build log? [...] [ 26%] Building CXX object